The Contents of Organic Acid and Fatty Acid in Traditional Soy Sauce Prepared from Meju under Different Formations

형상이 다른 메주로 제조한 재래식 간장 중의 유기산과 지방산 조성

Three kinds of soy sauce were prepared using the brick type of conventional menu(A), the brick type of meju of Aspergillus oryzae (B) and the grain type of menu Aspergillus oryzae (C). Organic acid and fatty acid were analyzed In accordance to aging time of those products Citric acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, malonic acid, butyric acid, oxalic acid, and propionic acid were dejected in all kinds of soy sauce. The content of lactic acid was shown higher than those of any other organic acids. The content of lactic acid was much higher at beginning of preparation and at 180 days in soy sauce B than any other conditions. The content of acetic acid was much higher at beginning of preparation, at 120 days in soy sauce C and at 180 days in soy sauce B than any other conditions. The content of citric acid was highest at beginning preparation in soy sauce C, and that was highest in soy sauce B except beginning preparation to 120 days. Myristic, palmitic, stearic, oleic, linoliic, linolenic, arachidonic acid were detected in all kinds of soy sauce after 180 days. The content of oleic acid were shown 32.59∼53.79% in soy sauce B and in soy sauce C. The content of stearic acid was shown 49.7oA In soy sauce A. Linolinec acid and arachidonic acid were detected in only soy sauce C.